I wanna see this guy 1v1 boston dynamics and that humanoid Tesla bot
A kind of benchmark or drag race for robots? Let’s organise a decathlon: Fight, chess, sports, killing top ranking useless humans, etc…
Given that it’s a humanoid robot, I suspect that this is more of a marketing stunt than any practical deployment of robots.
Humanoid robots don’t make a ton of sense in manufacturing. Why mimic the sub-optimal anatomy of a human when you can make your robotic work slave have any appendage you want, which are designed to be optinal for their task along the assembly line?
Humanoid robots mostly only make sense in spaces that need to be designed for humans (like homes or hospitals) where the robot needs to regularly interact with human infrastructure.
Because the automated tools are human scale
Even if you rework them all to be fully automatic, you still need a human scale robot to move the work pieces from station to station
In auto manufacturing, the cars move on robot carts, and the parts move in assembly lines and are manipulated by arm robots.
And the humans move around them, guiding parts into place with mechanical assistance and doing the finer details, because it’s really fucking hard to fully automate the process
Car factories have had robots for decades. Is there even any practical use for humanoid robots there?
Strike fear into your fellow man? Show those peasants that you are working hard to replace them entirely.
What is the point in a humanoid form factor robot that you can’t have sex with?
Who said you can’t have sex with it?
What’s the point of any machine you can’t have sex with?
To make machines that you can have sex with.
If you can’t have sex with the sex-machine making machine, what even is the point?
I don’t know man, we gotta start somewhere
Can it empty my dishwasher?
